François Boucher had a brilliant career, received all the honours, received incessant royal commissions and enjoyed the friendship of many amateurs. However, his elegant art no longer seduces from the 1760 Salon. Empress Eugénie, by taste, revisited François Boucher's art and put it back in the spotlight in the minds of art critics. Son of Nicolas Boucher, print merchant, he worked in François Lemoyne's studio, but was above all an illustrator for J.F. Cars, engraver. At the same time he obtained the first prize from the Academy of Painting and went to Rome between 1726 and 1731. These first
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